For our last issue, HIVandHepatitis.com reviews some the year's major HIV, viral hepatitis, and related news highlights. As we enter 2018, antiretroviral treatment for HIV is about as good as it can get, use of PrEP for HIV prevention is expanding rapidly, and most people can be cured of hepatitis C with 2 or 3 months of well-tolerated therapy. But these advances are still not reaching everyone who needs them. The search for a functional cure for HIV, better treatments for hepatitis B, and m...

The past year brought no major breakthroughs in the search for an HIV cure, but a growing understanding of how the virus hides in the body bring us closer to strategies for long-term remission, researchers and advocates said at the 2017 HIV Cure Summit in San Francisco.